A filling station in Co Antrim and a fuel-laundering plant in Co Down have been dismantled by HM Revenue & Customs, as part of ongoing operations to tackle the sale of illegal fuel.
Customs officers removed two diesel forecourt pumps and over 1,000 litres of illegal fuel from a filling station in the Ballymoney area this morning.
Documents and records were also removed as part of an ongoing investigation into diesel sales from the filling station.
In an unrelated operation near Rathfriland yesterday, customs officials and local police uncovered a diesel-laundering plant capable of producing nearly 2m litres of illegal fuel a year - evading almost £1.2m of duty.
Storage tanks, a bleaching agent, 1,300 litres of laundered fuel, 1,000 litres of toxic waste, pumps and equipment were removed from the site.
